Ludwig the Accursed – BloodborneįromSoftware’s Gothic take on the Souls formula is full of disturbing imagery, but nothing else in the game will stick with you quite like Ludwig the Accursed. As the game creepily reminds you, “You cannot grasp the true form of Giygas’ attack.” 12. The music shifts to a much faster and sinister tune as the fight goes on, and then things just keep getting weirder and darker as the faces keep morphing into something less and less recognizable, eventually appearing as something like alien TV static from hell. The true form of Giygas, or at least what you can perceive, is a swirling black and red horror with a nightmarish face twisted in a perpetual scream. But when he sheds that form, things get very disturbing. In his first form, he’s not even that bad, just a fairly weird and very EarthBound-like alien in a mechanical spider-like tank. But then you face the final boss, Giygas. And for 30 hours or so, that’s exactly what it is. Giygas – EarthBoundĮarthBound is fondly remembered as a fairly silly, offbeat, and kid-friendly RPG. It’s quite possibly the best and most heartbreaking illustration of the body horror subgenre in gaming. What follows is an extremely disturbing boss fight with Jen frequently screaming for Tommy to help her as the beast she can’t control attempts to murder her love.

But when the pod opens, it turns out the aliens have fused her torso to a cybernetic lizard monstrosity. Either way, it’s a really freaky and out of place boss fight for an otherwise tame game.Īt first, it seems like she’s okay, just being held inside some sort of alien container. Depending on which route you took to his home planet of Venom, once you’ve dealt with the head, he’ll then either charge right at you as a newly revealed robotic skull, or you’ll enter an open arena battle where you have to shoot down his giant brain. When you finally come face to face with Andross after he’s taunted you all game, he’s just a giant head and set of hands floating in space. There’s nothing really scary about it, at least until you get to the somewhat baffling (and exceedingly creepy) final boss. Star Fox 64 is for the most part a really bright, happy game where you and your animal pals become the heroes of the Lylat System. With that in mind, these are the 15 scariest video game boss fights ever. We’re also using a fairly loose definition of boss fight here, as some of the most terrifying sequences are more about running away than actually defeating an enemy. There are some otherwise wholesome games that include surprisingly disturbing boss fights. While this is a list that mostly includes bosses from horror games, that alone wasn’t a prerequisite for inclusion.

There are some bosses we truly dread facing, not because of the challenge they pose, but because they stalk the shadows, are seemingly invincible, or look and sound like the things of nightmares. Boss fights are almost as old as video games themselves, but while most land somewhere between mild annoyances and controller throwing exercises, a few are just plain terrifying.

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